Workshops

Delegation for Leaders

Delegation is a highly effective way to increase efficiency, build new skills, motivate and inspire followers. Notionally this in turn frees up time and allows the leader to operate at a visionary and strategic level that is asked of them in the leadership role they’ve been anointed. Effective delegation is a core concept that highly effective leaders have mastered.

If however delegation has been executed poorly, team members who have been ‘delegated’ to may experience frustration, lack of confidence and confusion. Disengagement may prevail and performance may suffer at best, or in the worst case a valued employee may become a flight risk or even leave without little notice.

The root cause is often related to the way the delegating manager continues to unwittingly lead with a competitive, perfectionistic, approval orientated or avoidant mindset. These styles are often manifest in the following ways:

Lack of confidence in ability of direct reports;

Micromanagement

Does most things him / herself

Lack of trust in direct reports;

Doesn’t pass on the authority

Worried about what senior managers will think if work is:

Not completed or

Fails to be at an acceptable standard

Effective delegation is something that you can be learnt. However, it’s not necessarily a straight forward “horizontal” / skill based learning experience. Rather it often requires a “vertical” / developmental learning experience to occur before a leader can truly become an effective delegator.

We offer by workshops and one on one Leadership Coaching both stand alone or in combination to address these issues that prevail with some managers. Workshops and coaching together are a proven and highly effective approach to facilitate vertical learning and so help managers to overcome the common thinking styles that constrain and / or restrain effective delegation.

"...The workshop proved to be an insightful and exciting session for participants, which effectively challenged their self views on leadership styles and practices and crucially enabled them to create personalised action plans for future growth and development."

"They were flexible, easy to work with and provided on-the-spot solutions to challenges which have hindered our business growth pace.I highly recommend the Crystallize Transformational Leadership Program for delivering high quality leadership programs which I believe will deliver measureable benefits to our business.